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Cost & Process Improvement
Savings that stick, with owners, metrics and governance.
Cost-out only counts if it holds. I run improvement end to end: find the waste, execute the change, and build the ownership that keeps savings from creeping back.
Problems I solve
- Savings that show up in the plan and disappear by the next budget.
- Improvement projects that depend on one champion.
- Standard work that exists only on paper.
- Metrics defined differently at every site.
What I bring
- Lean and continuous improvement
- Process engineering and standard work
- Cost-out program management
- Master data cleanup and standardization
- Operational metric standardization
Proof
What I did, and what changed.
| What I did | What changed |
|---|---|
| Program-managed a multi-year enterprise cost-out across plants and functions. | Finance-validated savings across plants and functions. |
| Applied Lean to process design, equipment layouts and packaging at an FDA-regulated site. | Removed outdated packaging and labeling to cut operating cost. |
| Led an engineering team supporting packaging operations at a regulated pharmaceutical site. | Cost reductions delivered through performance metrics, reporting cadence and continuous improvement plans. |
From my roles in industry before Miller Forge.
Approach
Assess. Forge. Scale.
Assess
Find where value is trapped. Start with your processes, systems and data, and identify the fastest, most durable wins.
Forge
Build the solution with the people who'll run it. Targets set, owners assigned, nothing left to hope.
Scale
Implement, measure against the business, and put the governance in place that keeps the result from unwinding.
Typical engagement
Leadership of a cost-out program, or a defined improvement project with the owners and metrics built in from day one.
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